Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

The heart is a place of secrets.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.